On October 19, 2018, the VP of the CJUE ordered Poland to immediately suspend the application of the provisions of national legislation relating to the lowering of the retirement age for Supreme Court judges. A detailed press release is available online...

In its decision in the case of Saidani v. Germany (application no. 17675/18) the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously declared the application inadmissible. The decision is final. The case concerned the applicant’s deportation from Germany to Tunisia because...

The case of Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom (applications nos. 58170/13, 62322/14 and 24960/15) concerned complaints by journalists and rights organisations about three different surveillance regimes: (1) the bulk interception of communications; (2)...

On 6 Septembre 2018, the Supreme Court of India has struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex. The landmark decision by five Supreme Court judges to repeal the law and legalize gay sex between consenting adults overturns Section 377 of the IPC,...

On 4 September 2018, the European Court of Human Rights rendered its judgment in the case of Fatih Taş v. Turkey (5) (application no. 6810/09). The Court held, unanimously, that there had been a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the ECHR. The case...

On August 10, 2018, the UN Human Rights Committee issued an opinion on the confirmation by the French justice system, of a termination of employment of an employee of a nursery who wanted to wear a veil inside the establishment. Fired in 2008, the plaintiff had...